| ANOTHERFINEMESS | Hardy's description of inferno heat possibly (7,4,4) |
| WEATHERFORECAST | Meteorologist's prediction for Crete was heat, possibly (7,8) |
| TAKEITONTHECHIN | Accept misfortune courageously getting to kitchen in heat, possibly (4,2,2,3,4) |
| SWATHE | Case of sow on heat, possibly -- a broad area (6) |
| DANTEAN | Reminiscent of work by the 14th-century author of "Inferno" |
| SUNBATHER | Burns with heat, possibly? One does |
| REHYDRATE | Dryer heat possibly requires one to do this |
| EVIDENT | Apparent heat possibly protects fish (7) |
| ETNA | Italian hothead upsetting Italian creator of inferno, blowing top (4) |
| DANTE | Italian writer of 'Inferno' |
| RON | _ Howard, director of Inferno (3) |
| OUTOFTHEFRYING | Rendering of inferno after hot tin? Huge pity! (3,2,3,6,3,4,3,4) |
| SHELF | Shoal or sandbank creates no end of Inferno in Science Fiction (5) |
| NOTHANKS | At end of Inferno, T. Hanks reveals 'I'd rather not' (2,6) |
| DORSET | Main county reflected in Thomas Hardy's Wessex; site of a Neolithic cursus spanning part of the chalk downlands of Cranborne Chase (6) |
| ANGELCLARE | Husband of Tess in Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
| TESS | First name in the title of Roman Polanski's 1979 film adaptation of Thomas Hardy's 1891 novel (4) |
| VYE | Eustacia ___, heroine of Thomas Hardy's novel The Return of the Native |
| LAUREL | Strange allure of Hardy's partner (6) |
| WESSEX | South-west counties of Hardy's novels |
